Andoni Iraola Interview | Anfield Wrap Special
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It is Neil Atkinson joined by Andoni Iriola, the new Liverpool manager, but a man we've seen in the Premier League across the last few seasons with Bournemouth. It's a pleasure. Thank you very much for taking the time and doing this. Thank you. It's a pleasure also for me. Excellent. I just wanted to talk about with you, there's been a thing in my head all week and I'm not expecting you to know about necessarily about Kevin Keegan. But there's a quote of Bill Shankly talking about Kevin Keegan, and he talks about he has unbelievable natural enthusiasm for football. And when I watch your Bournemouth sides at their best, I'd say they had unbelievable natural enthusiasm for football. Is that something that you want to coach, that you want in every session?
You want enthusiasm for football?
I think it's the nature of the game. Probably the best memories we all have when we were playing is when we were kids and we just loved the game and you spend there time with the friends and you can spend three or four hours playing football and not overthinking things and when you become professional and there is pressure from... Sometimes it's difficult to enjoy the game, enjoy football, no?
How did Andoni Iraola describe bringing enthusiasm and joy back to players?
And there are... I always say there are a few moments in your professional career where you honestly enjoy playing and you are not worried about what's going to happen or just play for the love of the game. And when a team, when a player arrives to those moments, it's enjoyable for the ones watching normally, yes.
Do you remember in your playing career having moments like that? Specific moments where you just thought, I am loving every minute of this?
Yes. I always say that I didn't enjoy my playing career as I should, because especially for me playing for an athletic club, I felt like the responsibility and I wanted to make always the right thing, always behave perfectly and maybe thinking that everyone is like kind of looking at you and you have to be perfect in everything you do. And I think you need some experience to understand that you are not so important. and you should just be yourself and try to enjoy and try to even if you are a professional and you are under pressure I think when you enjoy the things that you do, I think probably you are going to perform better.
When you look to coach, and when you look to coach your previous sides and now this side, you're in the middle of pre-season training, are you trying to coach that to enjoy all the aspects of the game? Because obviously, strikers love scoring goals, everyone loves scoring goals, I love scoring goals, I don't get to do it anymore, I'm rubbish. But... Do you want to get that enthusiasm into the players for winning the ball back, for being aggressive, for chasing down? Are you looking to get that enthusiasm into all the players at all?
Yes, I think we need a collective idea in terms of some organisation, some structure, some clear things, so after you can express yourself as a football player. I think this is a collective sport and everything has to be We have to have a system that gives us a floor, let's say. Even if we don't play incredibly well, we are not having our best day as football players, there is a system behind us, there is a collective that will give us a high floor. I always say, let's raise our floor, and then when we are playing amazingly and we are having the day, it looks incredible. But I think the coaching side is like, okay, let's put the structure there, the organisation there, And after you have to trust your players.
In this case for me it's easy because I have very good players.
When you're thinking about you've got very good players, another quote that's in my head recently is Roger Federer saying he only won 55% of points. but he was the greatest tennis player ever, or one of the greatest tennis players ever, but only won 55% of points.
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